Exclusive: Captain America's Screenwriter

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Marvel enlists a regular collaborator.

By Stax

Marvel Entertainment honcho Avi Arad revealed a few days ago that there is a screenwriter working on the script for Captain America. Arad said he "does have a director and leading man in mind" but did not reveal who the screenwriter was. Now a reliable source has advised IGN FilmForce who the writer is of the Sentinel of Liberty's big-screen return.

Marvel usually draws on the same stable of screenwriters for its projects, such as David Goyer, Zak Penn, Simon Kinberg and David Hayter. Another of these Marvel veterans is the scribe writing Captain America: David Self.

Self has worked on two other Marvel projects, The Sub-Mariner (a script that Arad has long raved about) and Deathlok. He also adapted the graphic novel Road to Perdition for the big screen, and wrote the Cuban Missile Crisis drama Thirteen Days.

Self's reps at UTA had no comment when asked for confirmation.

"Without giving too much away, obviously there'll be a little bit of the origin and then we come into our real world," Arad recently disclosed. "What makes Captain America such a compelling character is that it allows you to judge history so you see where he came from and you see what he stood for."

Arad said last June, "This script is going to take a little bit of time, because it has to be a masterpiece. It's Back to the Future kind of stuff."